A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

New research has transformed scientists' understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form. New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists' understanding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A life reconstruction of Prototaxites taiti growing in the 407-million-year-old Rhynie chert ecosystem. (CREDIT: M. Humpage, ...

New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists' understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form. While most fossils are permineralized "hard" tissues, ...

Fossils are the remains or traces left behind by life forms that existed long ago and are normally found in sedimentary rocks. They are usually very small, like micro shells or pollen, and sometimes ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich land crucial to unlocking the mysteries surrounding the evolution of mammals ...

South Africa boasts some of the best fossil records on Earth. Fossils are found in strata and rocks in many parts of the country. Some are billions of years old. But fossils aren’t just pieces of the ...

Sometimes science can be a messy endeavor—not to mention “disgusting and smelly.” That’s how British researchers described their experiments monitoring dead sea bass carcasses as they rotted over the ...

(CNN) — A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different ...

New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists' understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form. While most fossils are "hard" tissues, such as bone, ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...